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BY WILLIAM BARKER, WIGAN, NO. 265, CIRCA 1760
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AN ENGLISH BULLET CROSSBOW
By William Barker, Wigan, No. 265, circa 1760
With slender steel bow retaining old strings with bone spacers, built-in gaffle with foliate decoration and retained by a catch at the rear, signed engraved back-sight, sprung fore-sight, flat-sided figured walnut gun-stock (minor bruises) inlaid with a shaped decorative panel with rococo decoration in front of the lock, and iron mounts including lightly engraved serial numbered butt-plate (iron parts with scattered light rust-staining and surface pitting)
30in. (76.2cm.)
By William Barker, Wigan, No. 265, circa 1760
With slender steel bow retaining old strings with bone spacers, built-in gaffle with foliate decoration and retained by a catch at the rear, signed engraved back-sight, sprung fore-sight, flat-sided figured walnut gun-stock (minor bruises) inlaid with a shaped decorative panel with rococo decoration in front of the lock, and iron mounts including lightly engraved serial numbered butt-plate (iron parts with scattered light rust-staining and surface pitting)
30in. (76.2cm.)
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